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In this new edition that includes a study guide, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life. Perfect for groups or self-reflection, Sabbath as Resistance offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.

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"If you are experiencing anxiety or work pressures, this book reads almost like a manifesto for a counter culture to challenge the norm. It will give you a taste for Brueggemann, whose focus was always on supporting preachers and pastors rather than writing for academics. Highly recommended." – Preach Magazine

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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.

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	Sabbath as Resistance	Interrupting Silence	Materiality as Resistance	Names for the Messiah	Celebrating Abundance	A Way Other Than Our Own
Description	Perfect for groups or self-reflection, Sabbath as Resistance offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.	Brueggemann motivates readers to consider situations in their lives where they need to either interrupt silence or be part of the problem, convincing us that God is active and wanting us to act for justice.	Brueggemann lays out how we as Christians may reengage our materiality for the common good. Materiality as Resistance serves as a manifesto of Walter Brueggemann’s most important work and as an engaging call to action. It is perfect for group study.	In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles- Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. This book explores each and how Jesus fulfilled the title.	This powerful devotional by best- selling author Walter Brueggemann includes daily reflections on the Scriptures and stories of Advent in order to invite us to see beyond the world's faux extravagance and realize the true feast laid out before us.	Walter Brueggemann's thought-provoking reflections for the season of Lent invite us to consider the challenging, beautiful life that comes with walking the way of grace.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Westminster John Knox Press; Revised edition (October 13, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 150 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0664263291
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0664263294
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.34 x 8.5 inches

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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.

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This book is a gem. I picked it up in a preparation for a study for a series I’m going to preach on the 10 Commandments. I was not disappointed. Redundancy is at a minimum in word pictures of bound. He has profound insight that Treece is the root of the fourth commandment in the first one. As Tim Keller has says we don’t break the other nine commitments until we break the first, that Of idolatry. I love the way he melted together the first and the fourth commandment and then also tied the fourth commandment into the final six. Masterful job. I will never think about the Sabbath the same way.

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Beautiful book

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022

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This book is part of my curriculum for my Masters program. It was well written and the Sabbath was thoroughly explained.

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Peter Dubbelman

A Familiar Theme with a Twist

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2019

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In this book, Walter Brueggemann lays out a familiar Sabbath theme within Evangelicalism and elaborates on an unfamiliar one. Both of them, for Brueggemann, contain an economic tone that helps neighbors recenter their community in God. The book’s familiar theme is well summed up by the following quotes:

“[Sabbath] declares in bodily ways that … we will not be defined by busyness and by acquisitiveness and by the pursuit of more, in either our economics or our personal relationships or anywhere in our lives. Because our life does not consist in commodity” (31–32).

“In U.S. society, largely out of a misunderstood Puritan heritage, Sabbath has gotten enmeshed in legalism and moralism and blue laws and life-denying practices that contradict the freedom-bestowing intention of Sabbath” (20).

“Those who participate in [Sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to the awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competitor” (27–28).
The book’s unfamiliar theme hinges upon a portion of the fourth commandment that requires that others “may rest as you do” (Deut 5:14). Here Sabbath keeping is the quintessential worship act of neighborliness and an invitation into the awareness of the exploitation of others:

“The fourth commandment on Sabbath compels rest for all members of the household, all members of the community, human and animal. As such it looks forward to the last six commandments that concern neighborly relations (Exodus 20:12–17). The fourth commandment anticipates a peaceable household and neighborhood and sets out a discipline and limit that will serve that peaceable news. The six commandments that follow on neighborliness reach a climactic point in the tenth commandment on coveting that is presented, perhaps, as the act that is the ultimate destruction of the neighborhood, for coveting generates mistrust and sets neighbor against neighbor” (69).

“Sabbath is the great day of equality when all are equally at rest.… This one day breaks the pattern of coercion, all are like you, equal—equal worth, equal value, equal access, equal rest” (40–41).

“Sabbath represents a radical disengagement from the producer-consumer rat race of the empire. The community welcomes members of any race or nation, any gender or social condition, so long as that person is defined by justice, mercy, and compassion, and not competition, achievement, production, or acquisition.… [Sabbath is] work stoppage with a neighborly pause for humanness” (54–55).

Sabbath is “the pause that refreshes … transforms” (45); it helps reconnect worship with “the well-being of the neighborhood and the protection of the vulnerable” (61; cf. 63, 83–85). For the believer is better defined by the quality of their relationships and the well-being of the neighborhood than the quantity of their possessions (124; cf. 69–89).

“Sabbath is the practical ground for breaking the power of acquisitiveness and for creating a public will for an accent on restraint.… an arena in which to recognize that we live by gift and not by possession, that we are satisfied by relationships of attentive fidelity and not by amassing commodities” (84–85).

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I recommend this book to everyone who struggles to rest and ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018

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We read this book as a Lenten book study in our church. It is a short book full of thought provoking ideas. The author writes about the importance of Sabbath in this busy world in which we live and the resistance of Sabbath by society. In addition he provides a fascinating look at the Ten Commandments in the light of Sabbath. I recommend this book to everyone who struggles to rest and still the mind; isn't that all of us?

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Kathryn Stiles

This book changed my worldview

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019

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A small book but extremely powerful. Demonstrates the truth of Creator God who established an economy of grace and rest for all. I am learning to keep the Sabbath again and enjoying it immensely. God is good!

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Must Read for American Christians

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019

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A nice, short, expose on the Sabbath commandment. Bruegermann does a good job putting the command in the context of ancient Israel, then applying it to contemporary settings.

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Deon Strydom

Sabbath in modern clothes

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Brueggemann does an excellent job of bringing the 10 commandments, especially the 4th on Sabbath keeping, into a modern context. I found his links with our anxiety driven society especially helpful.

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A Short, Solid Effort by a Respected Voice

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2020

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Walter Brueggemann has long been considered one of contemporary theology's most trusted voices on Old Testament.

At a mere 90 pages, "Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition with Study Guide: Saying No to the Culture of Now" is a breezy, informative, and well researched read and easily one of Brueggemann's more accessible works to the wider Christian audience. A Columbia Theological Seminary professor, Brueggemann is an intellectual and would likely be unable to shut off that part of his identity even if he were to try. "Sabbath as Resistance" began as a Bible Study series, a fact that adds depth to this new edition that includes a six-week study guide that tackles each of the six primary chapters contained within the book.

"Sabbath as Resistance" kicks off with a relatively brief preface by Brueggemann that is followed by six chapters exploring Sabbath through the lenses of the first commandment, anxiety, coercion, exclusivism, multi-tasking, and the tenth commandment.

Each chapter is relatively brief yet packed to the brim with Brueggemann's exegesis, initially bouncing off the work of Michael Fishbane and establishing early on that Sabbath is “resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.” This is a point he revisits often throughout "Sabbath as Resistance," though I suppose that makes sense given it's the actual title of the book.

While Brueggemann certainly explores his subject well, there's an undercurrent of anti-market economics that permeates the book's literary tapestry. Some will undoubtedly embrace this, essentially an argument that, at least for me, felt only partially true as it seemed to negate the very individual faith that it purported to call into responsibility.

I'm also writing this review during a time in our society when "Black Lives Matter" is at the forefront and social justice issues are being passionately discussed. Institutional racism is being challenged and systemic concerns being protested. Brueggemann is undoubtedly correct, one could easily say, that the "system" itself is what is to be resisted and that Jesus himself represented and lived into a different way of doing life.

Yet, where "Sabbath as Resistance" falls short is in calling us all into a more disciplined accountability ourselves as individuals and as Christians. While systemic reform is called for, so too is our own individual responsibility to practice Sabbath even if the system itself does not encourage us to do so.

Jesus didn't actually change the system, but set himself apart from it. While this makes its way into Brueggemann's writing at times, more often than not he rails against the system rather than our adhering to it.

Brueggemann's ability to tie Sabbath into the ten commandments is engaging and essential. The chapter on the fourth commandment, in particular, is quite strong and immersive while the section on anxiety that follows is equally powerful. There's little denying, at least for those familiar with scripture, that Brueggemann's argument that Sabbath is an essential spiritual discipline is valid and supported theologically. However, "Sabbath as Resistance" spends too much time in its systemic passions and not enough time applying the discussion to contemporary Christian living and exactly how one can lean into Sabbath in a system that seemingly discourages it at every turn of our lives.

While "Sabbath as Resistance" is at least partially a theological mixed bag, rest assured that in such a short book that Brueggemann hits hard and fast in celebrating the rich tradition and history of Sabbath.

It is a mark of a valuable resource on the Christian life that by the end of "Sabbath as Resistance" that I had prayerfully acknowledged those areas where I violated and continue to violate Sabbath and that I could, perhaps more importantly, recognize how these ways were negatively impacting my faith journey. While I may have wished for a tad more out of "Sabbath as Resistance," it's rather refreshing that Brueggemann avoided legalistic arguments and focused on the broader issues.

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D. Jones

Accessible yet deep

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2021

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This was my read of Brueggeman. I prepared myself for a difficult but rewarding read. Only one of those assumptions was correct.

A remarkably easy read without sacrificing depth. A refreshingly different but very helpful approach to sabbath

Well worth it

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Sabbath as Resistance

Reviewed in Mexico on January 14, 2018

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Hasta donde recuerdo, todos los libros de Brueggemann han sido de una calidad superior. Este libro no decepciona. De hecho, descubrí que ya tenía el volumen sin Study Guide. Pero ahora que lo leí con el guía me pareció incluso un libro superior. Dios nos conceda aprender de la teología del sábado como debe escucharse adecuadamente.

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Marcos Torres

Absolutely stunning

Reviewed in Australia on December 21, 2020

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This is the best book I have ever read on the Sabbath because it goes beyond religious arguments and focuses on social, humanitarian, and justice perspectives that gives the day deep relevance and existential significance.

Recommend it!

Leonora Becket

A great thought provoking and counter-cultural read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2018

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Very thoughtful content explained clearly with practical ways of resisting trends in our current consumer culture.

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